Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (R) with the Three Marys at the Tomb and "Noli me Tangere"

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The name gradual derives from the practice of singing on the “gradual” steps of a raised pulpit.

Description

This choral leaf introduces the introit, or opening prayers, of the Easter Sunday Mass. The historiated letter R begins the text Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum, alleluia (I arose, and am still with you, alleluia). Within the upper register of the initial, the artist represents the three women named Mary, mentioned in the gospels, who discovered Christ’s empty tomb. In the lower register, a scene known simply as noli me tangere (touch me not), recounts the appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene following the Resurrection. When she recognized him, he asked that she not touch him but go to the disciples with the message that he was now risen.

Provenance

-1955

Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy- Gallery 115 Rotation – December 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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